Hollie Maea:lenfromak: Hollie Maea: Again, money should be invisible, serving as nothing more or less than a perfect lubricant of economic activity. It is the focus on money, rather than actual wealth, that can lead people to say with a straight face that the country with the best land on Earth, with 300 million of the most productive people in history, with a perfect credit rating and that backs the most widely used reserve currency in history is "broke".

Perfect credit rating? Just who would that be? Not the USA any more.

The point I was trying to make is that we had a perfect credit rating when the moron brigade started saying we were broke. The current lack of a perfect credit rating is a direct result of those idiot brokemeisters. (Although our credit rating is still extremely good, and we continue to not be "broke")

Sorry Holly, but if your credit rating can be destroyed by naysayers, it's only because it was all a lie to start with.

/"It wasn't the imperial tailor's fault the emperor ended up naked! It was that stupid mouthy kid!"

pedrop357:Printing money when the top men think it needs to be printed only hurts people who save, specifically poor and middle class people who see the purchasing power of their savings reduced, yet don't have the same access to the new money the way the rich. This is SOOO much better than the possible problems of people "hoarding" tangible currency (metals, etc.)

If you think that inflation levels have been too high recently, you might be a moron.